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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Instant Notes - move mouse to top left corner to pop up a notepad

« Last post by tannim on March 25, 2011, 01:58 AM »

Sleepmode works fine and is turned on.  What I meant was in relation to my original post.  if the mouse leaves that hot spot on the screen it would autohide(or sleep in this instance).  Yes, once the window loses focus it will hide, which is ok, but I was after incredible laziness of not even having to do that much to get it out of the way.

The idea is/was instant in instant out with just moving the mouse, no clicking other than typing or quick pasting something.  It works and is only a minor thing as it is.  other than that one incredibly lazy feature it does everything else I wanted : )

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Instant Notes - move mouse to top left corner to pop up a notepad

« Last post by tannim on March 24, 2011, 05:50 PM »

You can mark it solved, thanks.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Instant Notes - move mouse to top left corner to pop up a notepad

« Last post by tannim on March 24, 2011, 05:07 PM »

@tannim

You might also take a look at Quicknote which fulfills at least some of your requirements, if not all.

-cranioscopical (March 24, 2011, 11:07 AM)

Quicknotes is very close to what I want, indeed.  It has the corner mouse over popup and instant focus.  The only thing it doesn't have, which I can probably live without, is that it doesn't instantly hide again when I move my mouse away.  I can press escape or click outside the window so I think it will work.  Thank you : )  Maybe I can request that feature on the author's site.

As to those suggesting I do not want to use a mouse to open the notes and instead should use hotkeys, I'd prefer not to as I'd have to find the key combination to hit. That is about the same effort as to move the mouse down to the task bar and click notepad.  Hotkeys are great, but not for what I wanted.  Thank you for reading anyway.

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Finished Programs / SOLVED: Instant Notes - move mouse to top left corner to pop up a notepad

« Last post by tannim on March 24, 2011, 04:39 AM »

Hey guys.  My first time here.

Yes, yet another notepad thing, they're everywhere and way over done, but I liked this idea enough to type it out anyway.

An instant notepad/text box that pops up when you move your mouse cursor to locations 0,0(could add 1,0 0,1 and 1,1 I suppose).  The notepad would load a default note file, take system focus, and position the cursor at the end of the file on a new blank line.  You type in what you want, then move your cursor away.  It would then save the file, close the notepad/text box, and return focus to the program it took focus from.

I chose 0,0 because the mouse is almost never at that spot without purposefully going there.  It is very easy to get to with almost no chance of missing it as well.  Even if you do accidentally get there, simply move the mouse away to go back to work.

A user customizable hotkey would allow you to lock the notepad/text box open for copy and paste operations with the mouse.

The goal is not to make a notepad replacement, just to make an instant and effortless no click required way to type out thoughts, paste copied text, and generally get back to work as soon as possible.

I tried to make something in autohotkey to do this but I never managed anything usable.